Kurt Cobain‘s death smelled like a conspiracy to some fans who desperately wanted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to open a murder probe into his untimely demise, according to newly released FBI files on the late rocker.
“I only wish to receive justice for and others who loved this man as much as I did. This man was Kurt Cobain, belonging to a band called Nirvana, and it was origanally [sic] thought and still accepted as the truth that he committed suicide,” one person wrote to the FBI in 2007. “There has since been evidence found that he was killed and didn’t commit suicide as originally thought.”
The letter was among 10 pages released without fanfare or notice by the FBI to “The Vault,” an online archive. Cobain committed suicide in April 1994, leaving behind wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean.
“We appreciate your concern that Mr. Cobain may have been the victim of a homicide,” an agent said in a boilerplate response explaining the FBI had no jurisdiction to open a murder investigation.
The fan urged the FBI to take the case claiming the idea Cobain had been murdered “bothers me the most because his killer is still out there.”
The file also contains pages from a 1997 fax from a production company which oversees the television series “Unsolved Mysteries,” said Rolling Stone, which first reported the file had been made public.